Let's save XP!!!

Although this a server newsgroup, you all probably either use Windows XP or
Vista as your administration workstation. Therefore I am posting this
message here.

Microsoft plans to end most sales of Windows XP on June 30, despite a deep
reluctance by many business and individuals about moving to Vista. I
personally believe Vista has too heavy of a memory and disk space footprint,
less snappy performance, and it fails to allow one to go back to the classic
look and feel of XP. For instance, what happened to the old fashioned
vanilla folders in Explorer? And the lack of an "UP" button in Vista's
Explorer as well. (Now why did the have to take that away?)

Sign petition here.
http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/

Colin
Mon Apr 14 15:31:28 PDT 2008

It is not a server newsgroup. It is a Windows 64bit newsgroup.

"Spin" <Spin@invalid.com> wrote in message
news:66hhjbF2ipqk2U1@mid.individual.net...
> Although this a server newsgroup, you all probably either use Windows XP
> or Vista as your administration workstation. Therefore I am posting this
> message here.
>
> Microsoft plans to end most sales of Windows XP on June 30, despite a deep
> reluctance by many business and individuals about moving to Vista. I
> personally believe Vista has too heavy of a memory and disk space
> footprint, less snappy performance, and it fails to allow one to go back
> to the classic
> look and feel of XP. For instance, what happened to the old fashioned
> vanilla folders in Explorer? And the lack of an "UP" button in Vista's
> Explorer as well. (Now why did the have to take that away?)
>
> Sign petition here.
> http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/

Gary
Mon Apr 14 22:00:48 PDT 2008

You may have noticed by now that the OP has posted this to several groups...
microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general,microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory,microsoft.public.windows.server.general,microsoft.public.windows.server.networking

"Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:BB2531EB-3800-4691-8DF7-E3A7E181FB64@microsoft.com...
> It is not a server newsgroup. It is a Windows 64bit newsgroup.
>
> "Spin" <Spin@invalid.com> wrote in message
> news:66hhjbF2ipqk2U1@mid.individual.net...
>> Although this a server newsgroup, you all probably either use Windows XP
>> or Vista as your administration workstation. Therefore I am posting this
>> message here.
>>
>> Microsoft plans to end most sales of Windows XP on June 30, despite a
>> deep reluctance by many business and individuals about moving to Vista.
>> I personally believe Vista has too heavy of a memory and disk space
>> footprint, less snappy performance, and it fails to allow one to go back
>> to the classic
>> look and feel of XP. For instance, what happened to the old fashioned
>> vanilla folders in Explorer? And the lack of an "UP" button in Vista's
>> Explorer as well. (Now why did the have to take that away?)
>>
>> Sign petition here.
>> http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/
>

Freaky
Tue Apr 15 04:53:56 PDT 2008

Why would this be an issue? You can downgrade Vista Business to XP Pro
(w/o buying any licenses). As long as XP is supported this shouldn't be
such an issue.

And yes, I do hate vista with a passion. Always thought one of the
better things about windows compared to linux was the filebrowser (that
is, w/o webview in list mode). Now they killed that too. There's
actually very little I get about the new browser. Appearantly they want
to move away from browsing folders, dragging files etc. The idea
probably is that it the future we will all be searching for files
instead of browsing for em. Albeit IIRC they removed that feature from
Vista for now due to NTFS issues or something :)

Spin wrote:
> Although this a server newsgroup, you all probably either use Windows XP
> or Vista as your administration workstation. Therefore I am posting this
> message here.
>
> Microsoft plans to end most sales of Windows XP on June 30, despite a
> deep reluctance by many business and individuals about moving to Vista.
> I personally believe Vista has too heavy of a memory and disk space
> footprint, less snappy performance, and it fails to allow one to go back
> to the classic
> look and feel of XP. For instance, what happened to the old fashioned
> vanilla folders in Explorer? And the lack of an "UP" button in Vista's
> Explorer as well. (Now why did the have to take that away?)
>
> Sign petition here.
> http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/

Colin
Tue Apr 15 07:11:55 PDT 2008

That's only true if Vista Business came preinstalled and only if the user
already owns a retail copy of XP Pro.

"Freaky" <wontsay@ondeja.com> wrote in message
news:%23cfDo9unIHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Why would this be an issue? You can downgrade Vista Business to XP Pro
> (w/o buying any licenses). As long as XP is supported this shouldn't be
> such an issue.
>
> And yes, I do hate vista with a passion. Always thought one of the better
> things about windows compared to linux was the filebrowser (that is, w/o
> webview in list mode). Now they killed that too. There's actually very
> little I get about the new browser. Appearantly they want to move away
> from browsing folders, dragging files etc. The idea probably is that it
> the future we will all be searching for files instead of browsing for em.
> Albeit IIRC they removed that feature from Vista for now due to NTFS
> issues or something :)
>
> Spin wrote:
>> Although this a server newsgroup, you all probably either use Windows XP
>> or Vista as your administration workstation. Therefore I am posting this
>> message here.
>>
>> Microsoft plans to end most sales of Windows XP on June 30, despite a
>> deep reluctance by many business and individuals about moving to Vista.
>> I personally believe Vista has too heavy of a memory and disk space
>> footprint, less snappy performance, and it fails to allow one to go back
>> to the classic
>> look and feel of XP. For instance, what happened to the old fashioned
>> vanilla folders in Explorer? And the lack of an "UP" button in Vista's
>> Explorer as well. (Now why did the have to take that away?)
>>
>> Sign petition here.
>> http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/